(We invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest, but assume no responsibility for sentiments expressed under this head.)

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Your anonunced invitation of communications upon the issue of the coming national election is welcomed by me because of the relation which I perceive between that issue and the inner life of Harvard, fully as much as by reason of the national question itself, which, after all, will be settled pragmatically with very little reference to our sentiments.

In the matter of Hughes vs. Wilson, the following facts are conspicuous: (1) the overwhelming majority in our straw vote for Hughes is in strange distinction from the figures obtained in similar tests elsewhere resulting in victory for Wilson or in practical draws or in very slight favor of Hughes; (2) the expressions of admiration for Hughes here are pronouncedly militaristic and pro-Ally, whereas it is the pro-German throughout the country who are preparing to "strafe" Wilson for his independent Americanism; and (3) the phrases most frequently uttered by Harvard Hughes boomers have to do with every subject on earth except the sole (visible and the apparently eternal issue) of a Republican high tariff, sufficiently recognized by the rest of the country. If those three facts are granted, as I think they must be, we are forced to the conclusion that Harvard University, being judged by its majority, is exposing itself to the ridicule of America by taking a political stand based on puerile, prejudice, mob imitation and unreasoning ignorance of economic history. All of which (is more hurtful to us in prestige and) also in the development of character here, than it can be done to the cause of President Wilson before the country.

I have taken the liberty of summarily stating what impression I have thus far received of the grounds for Hughes sentiment in the University. And in fairness I now add the statement that I am intellectually anxious to hear any real arguments for Republican victory this November that any reader of the CRIMSON will undertake to present.

If I may be permitted to do so, I urge undergraduates particularly to keep their eyes and ears open, not alone to the perception of the attitude of eminent alumni in Massachusetts, but to the voice of the whole people--miners, trainmen and farmers, as well as Boston bankers. ISIDOR LAXARUS 1L.